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Police arrested 77 persons for staging demonstrations against the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) on Wednesday.

Nepal Police spokesperson Bishnu Kumar KC said that 77 persons were detained from different parts of the Capital. 

As many as 21 sister organistaions of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, CPN (Maoist Centre) and other six parties staged demonstrations outside the Parliament building in New Baneshwor this afternoon. 

Demonstrators and police personnel also clashed in the Baneshwor area. 

Police used water cannons and also lobbed tear gas shells after the protesters pelted stones at them. 

The meeting of the House of Representatives has been postponed till Friday. 

Speaker Agni Prasad Sapokota postponed the meeting after endorsing the report of Tharu Commission and a condolence motion. 

He said that the next meeting will be held on Friday.

Cadres of various political parties staged a demonstration against the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in New Baneshwor on Wednesday.

Police used a water cannon to disperse the crowd from the area.

The government was planning to table the MCC in the Parliament today but Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had a meeting this afternoon and decided not to table the compact in the meeting of the House of Representatives.

Prime Minister Deuba has called a meeting of the coalition for 3 pm tomorrow to hold the decisive discussion on the MCC.

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will not be tabled in the meeting of the House of Representatives today.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting this morning and agreed not to table the MCC in the Parliament today.

Soon after the Parliamentary Party meeting, Dahal reached Baluwatar to inform Prime Minister Deuba that the party had decided not to table the MCC without forging national consensus.

The duo had agreed to hold a meeting of the alliance at 3 pm tomorrow in an attempt to forge consensus on the MCC.

The Maoist Centre warned that the coalition will break down if the MCC is tabled forcefully in the Parliament.

“The coalition will fall apart if the government tables the MCC without the decision of the alliance. The government will also break down if the coalition falls apart,” Party Chief Whip Dev Gurung said.

The Parliament meeting has been scheduled for 1 pm today.